Lake Michigan is at the warmest temperature for Oct. 9 dating back 30 years.

The dataset for good, high resolution, surface water temperatures dates back to 1995. The year 1995 finally had satellites flying above the Great Lakes and deriving daily surface water temperatures over all of the Great Lakes’ surfaces.

We can’t say this is the warmest Lake Michigan’s surface has ever been, but we can say it’s the warmest for Oct. 9 since back to 1995. We just don’t know what the temperatures were before 1995.

Here are the current surface water temperatures on the Great Lakes. Southern Lake Michigan has surface temperatures around 68 degrees. Northern Lake Michigan has surface temperatures around 63 degrees.

Lake Michigan right now has an overall surface temperature of 65.6 degrees. The long-t

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